MIDI Setup not communicating

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I can get supercollider to communicate with any of the DAWs I use no problem at all but when following the instructions on page MIDI | Tidal Cycles I cannot get a sound out of the DAW I am using.

My setup in Supercollider is:

SuperDirt.start;
MIDIClient.init;
~midiOut = MIDIOut.newByName("MiniFuse 4", "MiniFuse 4");
~dirt.soundLibrary.addMIDI(\mydev, ~midiOut);

and then in Visual Studio Code, I have been trying:

d1 $ n "0 2 4 7" # s "mydev"

The console in VSC shows no errors and there are no errors reported in supercollider.

What have I missed?

Thanks!

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Here is an example that worked for me. Sends note events, and control-change events.
( tidal/code/electribe2.tidal · master · waldmann / computer-mu · GitLab , rendered to audio: tidal/code/electribe2.ogg · master · waldmann / computer-mu · GitLab )

I didn't use this recently, but I recall that at the time, it worked exactly like described here: MIDI | Tidal Cycles

[EDIT - it's the same as your steps. Can you paste here the output of each command?]

And I just checked that those steps really work, for QSynth (software synthesizer running locally)

$ sclang
sc3> MIDIClient.init;
    -- MIDI Destinations:
    --     MIDIEndPoint("FLUID Synth (5566)", "Synth input port (5566:0)")
sc3> ~midiOut=MIDIOut.newByName("FLUID Synth (5566)", "Synth input port (5566:0)");
    -- -> a MIDIOut
sc3> ~dirt.soundLibrary.addMIDI(\mydevice, ~midiOut);
    -- -> a DirtSoundLibrary

then in Tidalcycles:

d1 $  n "0" # s "mydevice"
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Thanks, ok to confirm what the responses are:

MIDIClient.init;
    // MIDI Destinations:
    // MIDIEndPoint("MiniFuse 4", "MiniFuse 4")

~midiOut=MIDIOut.newByName("MiniFuse 4", "MiniFuse 4");
    // -> a MIDIOut

~dirt.soundLibrary.addMIDI(\mydevice, ~midiOut);
    // -> a DirtSoundLibrary

and then when evaluating, the command below:

d1 $  n "0" # s "mydevice"

There is no output at all, which I'd expect from Logic which has some channels setup, instruments armed to play.

Then if I try something like this:

d1 $ s "hh*4"

I hear the hi-hat playing via my audio interface.

It's odd, that the MIDI side of things, isn't working.

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You seem to be on Mac. It's worth checking whether MIDI is flowing between the apps. On Mac there's MIDI Monitor. Set up a loopback (On Mac "IAC-Driver", you probably already did, since you're talking to Logic). MIDI Monitor can listen in on communication between apps.

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Thanks for your help, after fiddling around, I have got it working yay!! The MIDI monitor is a handy tool, it certainly helped :slight_smile:

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